1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Theoretical Insights
6. 2. An Overview of Language Anxiety Research and Trends in its Development 11
7. 3. On the Misreading of Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope (1986) and the Need to Balance Anxiety Research and the Experiences of Anxious Language Learners 31
8. Part 2: Empirical Investigations
9. 4. Anxiety and L2 Self-Images: The ‘Anxious Self’ 51
10. 5. Are Perfectionists More Anxious Foreign Language Learners and Users? 70
11. 6. Social Anxiety and Silence in Japan’s Tertiary Foreign Language Classrooms 91
12. 7. Do You See What I Feel? An Idiodynamic Assessment of Expert and Peer’s Reading of Nonverbal Language Anxiety Cues 110
13. 8. Towards an Ecological Understanding of Language Anxiety 135
14. 9. Exploring the Relationship between Anxiety and Advanced Hungarian EFL Learners’ Communication Experiences in the Target Language: A Study of High- vs Low-Anxious Learners 156
15. Part 3: Implications for Practice
16. 10. Anxious Language Learners Can Change Their Minds: Ideas and Strategies from Traditional Psychology and Positive Psychology 177
17. 11. The Links Between Self-Esteem and Language Anxiety and Implications for the Classroom 198
18. 12. Conclusion 217
19. Index 224